THE POD CAST (Proof of Delivery‪)‬ Routeique Inc

Welcome to the first episode in The Proof of Delivery Cast’s series on Digital Twins.
 
In the introductory episode, hosts Mike Allan, Kaitlin Mercier, and Brent Bawel, discuss the vernal concept and applications of digital twins within the supply chain industry. In the following episodes within this series, we will dive deeper into digital twins, some real-world applications and use cases, and how Routeique is amongst the companies working to further progress within the digital twin field.
 
Key Takeaways:
- What is a digital twin (00:00 - 15:45)
- Introduction to Insight (15:45 - 22:26)
- Introduction to Foresight (22:26 - 29:50)
- Introduction to Oversight (29:50 - 35:40)
- Wrap up of Insight, Foresight, and Oversight (35:40 - 36:18)
- What companies can do to prepare for a digital twin (36:18 - 46:24)
 
Keep your eye out for the next episode in the series where we talk more in depth about how digital twins create better insight through improved visibility and transparency in real-time.

Tai Munro
 
Tai is an assistant professor of sustainability studies at MacEwan University. Prior to this position, Tai was the director of education development, assisting in the creation of micro-credential programs. Tai believes, “A learner is not a brain that comes to class for me to fill. They are people, collectively and individually, who have the potential to strive and fail, to grow and learn, to contribute and converse.”
 
MacEwan University
 
MacEwan University, located in Edmonton and founded in 1971, provides a transformative education in a collaborative and supportive learning environment. Through research and innovation that engages students, faculty and the community, creativity thrives.
 
Key Takeaways
 
About Tai and MacEwan University
What micro-credentials are and why they are important in today’s professional landscape
What led to the decision to create supply chain micro-credentials
Why Routeique was chosen as industry experts
What the future of micro-credentials looks like
 
Links
 
Tai’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taimunro/
 
MacEwan University’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/school/macewanuniversity/
 
MacEwan University
 
https://www.macewan.ca/home/

Luke
 
Luke is a founding partner and Chief Growth Officer of The Rubic. He is an innovative and result-oriented accomplished sales professional with 6 years of very diverse industry experience. A dynamic voice and bi-lingual presenter with a true entrepreneurial spirit that embodies the values and character of a sales “ hunter” with a proven ability to forge strong business connections and relationships in all levels of industry. Luke also has his BBA from Toronto Metropolitan University.
 
The Rubic
 
The Rubic is building a future where robots seamlessly integrate into diverse operations, transcending the limitations of traditional automation. Their vision is to create robotic solutions that are not only flexible but can also easily adapt to the evolving needs of an ever-changing supply chain market. By developing systems that effortlessly integrate into ongoing operations, they aim to revolutionize the way goods are moved around the world.
 
Key Takeaways:
 
The early days of The Rubic
How The Rubic aims to enhance the human workforce rather than replace it
How The Rubic differs from traditional robotics solutions
What facilities need before adopting The Rubic
Why Calgary is a great place for entrepreneurship 
 
Links
 
Luke’s LinkedIn:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbuc/?originalSubdomain=ca
 
The Rubic’s LinkedIn:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rubic/
 
The Rubic Website:
 
https://www.therubic.com/

Tee Ganbold
 
Tee Ganbold is CEO and co-founder of OpenESG, founded in 2020.
 
Tee is a Mongolian born and British raised entrepreneur with experience as an operator in global B2B2C technology companies (from OpenESG, Clear AI, Cambridge Analytica, ConsenSys) and investor in venture capital firms (Intrepid Capital Partners, Fabric Ventures and Stelium Ventures), specializing in identifying product market fit, building global business ecosystems, and crafting go-to-market strategies.
 
David Aikman
 
David Aikman is Chairman and co-founder of OpenESG, founded in 2020.
 
David is a proven leader in creating innovative partnerships between companies and non-profit organizations, that create sustainable, shared value on a global scale. Over the last 25+ years, working for the International Olympic Committee and the World Economic Forum, David has created, curated, and led innovative communities that have changed the world for the better.
 
OpenESG:
 
OpenESG, founded in 2020, aims to neutralize greenwashing by nudging companies towards positive action and highlighting progress - not assisting them to fulfill compliance tick boxes. By using novel Web3 design principles, OpenESG incentivizes stakeholders within the system to serve people and planet while still allowing them to focus on creating financial value. OpenESG is resting trust in ESG scores while proving to companies that it pays to care. 
 
OpenESG is building digital infrastructure, products and services that enable businesses, consumers, creators and other builders to generate positive impact in the world. Their unique value proposition combines radical transparency with meaningful consumer engagement, creating new incentives for businesses to behave better and become leading forces in shaping a more equitable and sustainable world.
 
Key Take Aways:
 
What is OpenESG?
How OpenESG is working towards ESG alignment around the world
The biggest challenges they face, and what their team is doing to overcome them
How OpenESG not only scores businesses, but what they do to help them improve
Preparing for evolving regulations around the world
How to get in touch 
 
Links:
 
Tee’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tee-ganbold-37aa50130/ 
 
David’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-aikman-2456b/ 
 
Open ESG’s Twitter
 
https://twitter.com/esg_dao?lang=en 
 
Open ESG
 
https://www.openesg.com/ 
 
Open ESG’s LinkedIn 
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/esgdao/

On this episode of The POD Cast, hosts Mike Allan and Kaitlin Mercier talk with guest, Dr. Matt Taylor, form the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute about how to get started on the path to employing AI.
 
Matt Taylor
 
Matthew E. Taylor (Matt) received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in the summer of 2008, supervised by Peter Stone. He then completed a two-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Southern California with Milind Tambe and spent 2.5 years as an assistant professor at Lafayette College. He was then an assistant professor at Washington State University where he held the Allred Distinguished Professorship in Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, he temporarily left academia to help start an artificial intelligence lab in Edmonton, Alberta, with Borealis AI, the artificial intelligence research lab for the Royal Bank of Canada. He is now a tenured associate professor in computer science at the University of Alberta, a Fellow-in-Residence at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and remains an adjunct professor at Washington State University. He has been a PI or co-PI on over $6M USD in competitively awarded research funding from federal, state, and industrial sources, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has (co-)supervised 7 graduated PhD students and 5 MS students, as well as published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in conferences and journals. His current fundamental and applied research interests are in reinforcement learning, human-in-the-loop AI, multi-agent systems, and robotics.
 
AMII
 
AMII’s mission is to make artificial intelligence and machine learning the primary drivers of sustainable growth for Alberta’s economy – through great research, advisement and education.
 
We began in 2002 as the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (AICML), a joint effort between the Government of Alberta and the University of Alberta (UAlberta). Originally funded through the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, the research centre soon became known as the Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning after being brought under the umbrella of Alberta Innovates. In 2017 the centre rebranded as Amii, becoming part of the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy and launching as a not-for-profit in the heart of Edmonton’s downtown core. Over its twenty-year history, and thanks to forward-looking investments by Alberta Innovates and the Government of Alberta, Amii has built a world-class team of researchers at the University of Alberta and affiliated institutions. Since our inception, we have increased research capacity in AL/ML nearly nine-fold, starting with four co-founding members at the University of Alberta and now funding the research of 28 Fellows (including 23 Canada CIFAR AI Chairs) and eight Canada CIFAR AI Chairs at universities across Western Canada.
 
Key Takeaways
 
What is AMII and what they do to optimize the supply chain
Who is Matt Taylor and why he entered this industry
What are the biggest challenges to the supply chain that AMII is working to solve
What is the next big thing coming to the industry
Advice for people in supply chain, where they should be looking and focusing their efforts
 
Important Links
 
Matt Taylor LinkedIn 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewedmundtaylor/?originalSubdomain=ca
 
AMII
https://www.amii.ca/
 
AMII LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amii/
 
AMII Twitter
https://twitter.com/AmiiThinks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

On this episode of The POD Cast, hosts Mike Allan and Kaitlin Mercier talk with guest, Rene Grzeszick, co-founder and CTO of MotionMiners. 
 
 
Rene Grzeszick
 
 
Rene is co-founder and CTO of MotionMiners, the primary responsibility of his work being the area of data analysis. Rene received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in computer science from TU Dortmund University in Dortmund, Germany, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He later joined the university’s Pattern Recognition in Embedded Systems group in the Department of Computer Science as a Ph.D. student. He has always been interested in the area of pattern recognition, which was a heavy area of focus for his research at Dortmund. 
 
 
Motion Miners
 
 
In 2014, Sascha Feldhorst conceived of the concept for MotionMiners while jogging, originally imagining it as a fitness tracker. This concept would lead to the eventual founding of MotionMiners in October of 2017 with partners René Grzeszick and Sascha Kaczmarek. During the first two years, MotionMiners was closely associated with the Fraunhofer Institute, but since the summer of 2019 they have been completely spun off. Motion-Mining® makes it easy for companies to perform analysis regarding efficiency and ergonomics for process optimization. Utilizing MotionMiner’s sensors and AI, you can automatically carry out analysis with 80% less effort than conventional methods. MotionMiners aims to provide the world’s most flexible and comprehensive analysis toolbox for human activities. 
 
 
Key Takeaways
 
 
What is MotionMiners and how it works with businesses to analyze and optimize manual processes.
How integrating your operations own data can help optimize even better.
How MotionMiners and the industry as a whole have evolved and changed AI and machine learning methods.
How the recent years have driven the interest of digitization and data driven optimization. 
Common process and ergonomic recommendations and insights provided by MotionMiners.
The difference between making changes and making well-informed, data-driven changes within your operation.
How the desire for ergonomic changes has increased over the years.
 
Important Links
 
 
Rene’s LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rene-grzeszick/?originalSubdomain=de
 
MotionMiners
 
https://www.motionminers.com/en/
 
MotionMiners LinkedIn
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/motionminers-gmbh/
 
MotionMiners Twitter
 
https://twitter.com/MotionMiner